Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hooverwas the 31st President of the United States. He was a professional mining engineer and was raised as a Quaker. A Republican, Hoover served as head of the U.S. Food Administration during World War I, and became internationally known for humanitarian relief efforts in war-time Belgium. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business under the rubric "economic modernization."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth10 August 1874
CityWest Branch, IA
CountryUnited States of America
Three qualities of greatness stood out in Woodrow Wilson. He was a man of staunch morals. He was more than just an idealist; he was the personification of the heritage of idealism of the American people. He brought spiritual concepts to the peace table. He was a born crusader.
[Professional engineers] must for years abandon their white collars except for Sunday.
[N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.
With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
Be patient and calm; no one can catch fish in anger.
A splendid storehouse of integrity and freedom has been bequeathed to us by our forefathers. In this day of confusion, of peril to liberty, our high duty is to see that this storehouse is not robbed of its contents.
Any practice of business which would dominate the country by its own selfish interest is a destruction of equality of opportunity. Government in business, except in emergency, is also a destruction of equal opportunity and the incarnation of tyranny through bureaucracy.
Please find me a one-armed economist so we will not always hear, "On the other hand..."
New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.
It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war.
Lewis Strauss is one of my best friends.
The course of unbalanced budgets is the road to ruin
We have learned that social injustice is the destruction of justice itself.